Abstract
IN this useful book Prof. Sergi, of the University of Rome, gives a concise statement of the opinions he holds regarding the origin and evolution of human races. His opinions and inferences demand the most respectful consideration, for they are founded on the investigations of a lifetime, and have in every phase of his busy life been marked by an independent and courageous judgment. Prof. Sergi distinguishes five genera of mankind, and regards each of them as of independent origin, their relationship being represented, not as diverging branches from a common trunk, but as parallel or collateral stems issuing separately from an ancestral stock. He also regards anthropoids as parallel developments—explaining their structural relationships to human races as inheritances from a. common basal stock.
Le Origini Umane. Ricerche Paleontologiche.
By G. Sergi. Pp. xi + 202. (Torino: Fratelli Bocca, 1913.) Price 3.50 lire.
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K., A. Le Origini Umane Ricerche Paleontologiche . Nature 91, 159–160 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091159b0
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